29/06/2008 - Ok be brave, its time to rivet the ribs on ...session 1

The tank was first of all dry assembled to get it straight in the jig, and work started with rib next too the outboard end rib.
 

This is a two handed job for me, so next-door popped round and gave a helping hand. Getting the rib in the right place once it has all its cement on is interesting.  I used a locator pin to get it right because with all the glupe you cant see where the holes are.  You will see what I mean.  Then using the rivet gun, flush set, and the tungsten bucking bar we set to riveting from the leading edge to the aft edge.  It took a few rivets to get the feel back and we picked up a little speed.

We managed to do two ribs, including all the filleting and gluping of the shop heads.  No dents in the skin, rivets set well, even if it is difficult to see the shops heads with all the cement about !!!!!! 

Oh and I also gluped the shop heads from the D6 universal rivets I put in the end outboard rib, you can see that in the first picture below.

The results look like this :-)